Text useful form of ".com"munication

Written language has been used for thousands and thousands of years for a way of getting things across to people and also saying how you felt. Since history began. It's a good method for suggesting, describing, asking, or just hanging out and having fun, and we now use those same written words for making thoughts known on a new form of talking, the Internet. 'Internet' comes from Latin words meaning "between" and "computers" and the ancient Greeks thought the Internet was from the gods writing notes to each other across very big distances. In the early times of it, it was formerly like they tried many different ways to make the Internet. But pictures, mathematical formulas, and heated gas never did work. So they decided to use writing. Then there are many different websites, all using the same writing.


Invention promises to "change transportation forever"

Move over, Dean Kamen, a new inventor has hit the scene with a radical new idea that is going to make walking obsolete and change the way the cities of the world are physically laid out. Working late in his lab one night, famed crackpot scientist I. Arthur Vanderwalken stumbled across something so bitchin he had to lie down. When he got up the next day, he invented "moon boots," the concept for which has been around since the Industrial Revolution and the name of which has been in common use since the 1950's. Vandentalker took the springs out of an old bed frame and attached them to some wood and old sneakers with lots of screws and stuff. The "moon boots" elevate the user some 8 inches off the ground, on a cushion of sixteen springs to each foot which precisely simulates the moon's gravity--one-sixth of the earth's. Walking on the shoes is dangerous and only slightly amusing, making them sure to be "one of the greatest inventions of all time," said Vadergalter. Critics have responded that they have never seen or heard of Vaskenspalkley's "moon boots."


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Text useful form of ".com"munication

Written language has been used for millenia as a way of communicating thoughts across time and space, preserving one's thoughts, feelings, or observations for all who can read the relevant language for as long as the sample is physically preserved. Written language is now being applied to one of the most exciting creations of the past century, the Internet. The Internet, originally created by technicians at the Pentagon as a way of connecting different computers, their processing power, and the contents of their hard drives, is now one of the most powerful forces in the cultural, economic, and political speres of the rapidly evolving global community. There is hardly a business operating today without a website, and many Americans consider email an integral part of their daily lives. The foreparents of the Internet were wise to utilize an existing form of communication in their new creation. Although computers do not directly transmit text, but rather an encoded form which is translated and displayed as text for the user, written language is the medium of choice for the vast majority of websites, newsgroups, email platforms, etc. Indeed, without writing, the Internet would likely be some kind of garish, incomprehensible pantomime. Imagine the difficulties an online bookseller might have displaying available titles, not to mention the cruel irony of selling books in a medium deviod of the written word. There are millions of websites in existence today, in all the world's major languages. The Internet is changing the world forever, but this new technology dependent on a medium that has been in use since the beginning of history. As the French say--and write--le plus çe change, le plus les même choses.


Fat Joe, R Kelly be proper


Source of mysterious noise revealed

Girly, Nancy-Drew-type, ameteur detectives Jessica Willis and Ian Vandewalker put their heads together this weekend and finally solved the Mystery of Why It Sounds Like the Upstairs Neighbors are Always Dropping Marbles on Weekend Nights. It took Willis' probing conversation with one of the neighbors to learn that they have parties where "beer-die" is played. Despite the ghoulish-sounding name, beer-die has nothing to do with killing beer, or killing people with beer, or passively watching someone or something die while beer is present or anything like that. The 'die' actually refers to the singular of the more popular word, "dice." A die is a multi-sided object with a different number on each side that is often used in gambling and dorky role-playing games. Beer-die, specifically, may be known to people back east as "plunk" (a much more playful and pleasantly onomatopoeic name). It consists of some stupid crap with bouncing the die and catching it, or getting it in somebody's beer or something. Well, once Jessica brought home that tidbit, all that was left was a small inductive leap for Vandewalker, who is trained in analytic philosophy, to realize that they weren't dropping marbles at all, but rather playing their little game. We're still not sure if dropping the die means you're messing up or not. If so, these guys suck.


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